Medieval mythography

by Chance, Jane

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Full title :Medieval mythography. / Jane Chance.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Florida
Place of Publication:Gainesville
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015.

The Physical Object

Description:xxx, 665 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780813060125, 0813060125
oclc:ocn898199150
LC Classification:PA8030.M98.C45
Dewey Decimal:809.02

Abbreviations and citation editions -- Chronology of medieval mythographers and commentary authors -- Introduction -- Toward a subjective mythography : allegorical figurae and authorial self-projection -- Dante's self-mythography : the inverted Ovid "commentary" of the Commedia (1321) and its family glosses -- "Iohannes de Certaldo" : self-validation in Boccaccio's "Genealogies of the gods" (ca. 1350-75) -- Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea (1399-1401) : a feminized commentary on Ovid -- Christine de Pizan's illuminated Women in teh Cité des Dames (1405) -- Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir perfectus : justifying Seneca's Hercules furens in de Laboribus Herculis (1378?-1405) -- Cristoforo landino's "Judgment of Aeneas" in the Disputationes camaldulenses (1475) -- Conclusion

Subjects

17.70 study of literature: general Civilisation médiévale -- Influence anc… Civilization, Medieval -- Classical inf… Criticism, interpretation, etc Criticism, Medieval Criticism, Medieval -- History Critique médiévale Ecole de Chartres History Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis) Latin literature Latin literature -- Criticism and inter… Literature, Medieval -- Roman influences Littérature latine -- Critique et inter… Mythologie Mythologie -- Historiographie Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature Mythology -- Historiography Mythology, Classical, in literature